.TH spice-vdagent "1" "April 2013" "@PACKAGE_STRING@"
.SH NAME
spice-vdagent \- Spice guest agent X11 session agent
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBspice-vdagent\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide daemon
\fBspice-vdagentd\fR and a X11 session agent \fBspice-vdagent\fR of which
there is one per X11 session.
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\fBspice-vdagent\fR gets automatically started in desktop environments which
honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.
.SH FEATURES
The spice guest agent adds the following features to spice Linux guests:
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Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)
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Automatic adjustment of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors, and their
resolution, to the number of client windows and their resolution
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Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 session
and the client, this supports both the primary selection and the clipboard
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Support for transferring files from the client to the agent
.SH OPTIONS
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\fB-h\fP
Print a short description of all command line options
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\fB-d\fP
Log debug messages
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\fB-s\fP \fIport\fR
Set virtio serial \fIport\fR (default: /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0)
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\fB-x\fP
Don't daemonize
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\fB-f\fP \fIdir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download\fR
Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can be either
an arbitrary \fIdir\fR or one of the special values of \fIxdg-desktop\fR or
\fIxdg-download\fR to select the default xdg Desktop resp. xdg Download
directory. If no value is specified the default is \fIxdg-desktop\fR when
running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and
\fIxdg-download\fR under other Desktop Environments
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\fB-o\fP \fI0|1\fR
Disable/enable opening the file save directory with xdg-open (showing the
directory in the file manager) when a file transfer from the client
completes. If no value is specified the default is \fI0\fR when running under
a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and \fI1\fR under other
Desktop Environments
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBspice-vdagentd\fR(1)
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
